How To Install salt-minion on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install salt-minion
on Kali Linux.
What is salt-minion
salt-minion is:
salt is a powerful remote execution manager that can be used to administer servers in a fast and efficient way.
It allows commands to be executed across large groups of servers. This means systems can be easily managed, but data can also be easily gathered. Quick introspection into running systems becomes a reality.
Remote execution is usually used to set up a certain state on a remote system. Salt addresses this problem as well, the salt state system uses salt state files to define the state a server needs to be in.
Between the remote execution system, and state management Salt addresses the backbone of cloud and data center management.
This particular package provides the worker / agent for salt.
There are three methods to install salt-minion
on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install salt-minion Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install salt-minion
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install salt-minion Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install salt-minion
using apt
by running the following command:
Install salt-minion Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install salt-minion
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall salt-minion on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the salt-minion
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall salt-minion And Its Dependencies
To uninstall salt-minion
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove salt-minion Configurations and Data
To remove salt-minion
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove salt-minion configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove salt-minion
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
salt-minion have the following dependencies:
- init-system-helpers
- dctrl-tools
- lsb-base
- python3-pycryptodome
- python3-systemd
- python3-zmq
- salt-common
- python3
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install salt-minion
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.